21.05.2020 
My first project when I entered KDAB was the migration of a multi-million lines Motif application to Qt… feels quite scary said like that. Fortunately, migrations from any toolkit to Qt is something KDAB has been doing from the beginning, and has lots of experience with. You may be wondering what this has to do […]
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Why is my screen still black A digestible blog on common render issues and what their cause could be
Part 2 If you are here from Part 1, welcome back. If you are wondering why we started at Part 2, go to Part 1. So, you tried everything from the first part (that was relative to you), and your screen is still a backlighting test? No problem. (Well.. I mean, clearly there is but […]
An engineer answers the doorbell
Due to Covid-19, the KDAB office in Berlin feels really empty. Some times, it’s just me, working on hardware, and a few other guys dotted around. The office staff are all working from home. The Problem My office is very far away from the door, yet, from time to time, KDAB gets deliveries and, as […]
Demos at Qt World Summit 2020 Palm Springs, October 20-22
Qt World Summit 2020 in Palm Springs, CA has been canceled and was instead initiated as a new virtual one-day event. KDAB were Gold sponsors and had planned to present an array of demos in the KDAB booth. Check them out! KDAB Demos at Qt World Summit, 2020 Speidels Braumeister UI and process control for […]
Why is my screen black? A digestible blog on common render issues and what could be their cause
Part 1 So, you’ve just poured your heart and soul into some real-time 3D rendering code and hit render. Wringing your hands in anticipation you wait for the screen to show your marvellous creation. Still… waiting. It says it’s done but, nothing. Well, maybe not nothing but simply darkness. You stare into the deep dark […]
Qt, range-based for loops and structured bindings Part 1
Qt has a long history. The first stable version was released before the first version of C++ was standardized and long before the different C++ compiler vendors started shipping usable implementations of the C++ standard library. Because of this, Qt often followed (and still follows) some design idioms that feel unnatural to the usual C++ […]
Ideas to help working from home
When I came to KDAB to work, working at home was a bit of a culture shock for me – I’d previously only ever worked in an open-plan office and had sworn that home working was not for me – I’d never manage to get anything done! However, I’ve found that home working suits me […]
Debugging and Profiling Qt 3D applications Learn about new 5.15 features and other useful tools
Qt 3D, being a retained mode high level graphic API abstraction, tries to hide most of the details involved in rendering the data provided by applications. It makes a lot of decisions and operations in the background in order to get pixels on the screen. But, because Qt 3D also has very rich API, developers […]
GammaRay 2.11.1 Release
We have released version 2.11.1 of our Qt application introspection tool GammaRay. The changes mainly focus on establishing full compatibility with Qt 5.14 as well as bugfixes and performance improvements, but there’s also a few new features. Areas most affected by changes in Qt 5.14 are the inspection of Qt Quick software rendering, deployment on […]
VS Code for Qt Applications – Part 1 A Technical Guide
This 3-part blog series shows in detail how to get up to speed with a Qt project using Visual Studio Code. Part 1 covers workspace setup, adding extensions, build, launch and workspace configurations, and more